Five seriously disabled stroke patients have shown small signs of recovery following the injection of stem cells into their brain.
Prof Keith Muir, of Glasgow University, who is treating them, says he is surprised
by the mild to moderate improvements in the five patients.
He stresses it is too soon to tell whether the effect is due to the treatment they are receiving.
The results will be presented at the European Stroke Conference in London — via redwolf.newsvine.com
PETA has to an article I wrote about their killing, an article that has already received nearly a quarter of a million likes
, has been shared roughly 85,000 times and has generated 5,000 comments.
I believe the purpose is to intimidate critics into silence. This is not the first time PETA has tried to do so. Many animal lovers who have publicly condemned PETA for their killing have received a letter from the PETA legal department. However, because a lawsuit would, among other things, allow for: subpoenas of PETA employees past and present; information as to where the PETA mobile van picked up animals, who it picked them up from, what they were told, who put them to death, when they were put to death, and where the bodies were discarded; the names of people and groups they’ve acquired animals from and what was said or not said to them; as well as records for all animals taken in and killed; and because a lawsuit would open PETA up to a counter-claim for chilling speech—a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation designed to silence, intimidate, or punish those who use public forums to right some wrong — I believe it is unlikely that PETA would ever follow-through with these threats — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Five of nature’s most fearful animals have formed a bond — after the baby animals were abandoned by their mums. The baby animals — three lions cubs, a tiger cub, and a spotted hyena cub are having a roaring good time at the Akwaaba Lodge in Rustenburg, South Africa, where all the baby animals live under one roof
James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s ground-breaking explorations of perception, light, colour, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. At its core is Aten Reign (2013), a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light. One of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived, the installation re-imagines Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic architecture — its openness to nature, graceful curves, and magnificent sense of space—as one of Turrell’s Skyspaces, referencing in particular his magnum opus the Roden Crater Project (1979-) — via Guggenheim
i guess that pickfair deserves it’s own update, as it’s a pretty remarkable, monstrous, huge, strangely beautiful, ostentatious, emblematic, storied, oddball house. but, i’ll be honest, i felt kind of creepy and exposed taking pictures of this house as beverly hills residents drove by giving me baleful and withering looks — via moby los angeles architecture
— via PAUL SHIPPER STUDIO
A $6 million tourism campaign has been launched to promote the Barossa Valley as the nation’s top food and wine destination.
The advertisement features a soundtrack by Australian singer Nick Cave and will appear on television networks around Australia from 2 June 2.
There will also be a digital and print media campaign, in an effort to attract interstate visitors.
Tourism Barossa chairman Chris Pfeiffer said there was more to the Barossa Valley than wine production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man wearing a suit of armour and wielding a sword is involved in a stand-off with police near Shepparton, in Victoria’s north.
The man is holding several police at bay at a caravan park at Congupna.
Police say they are concerned for the man’s welfare after he failed to make a scheduled appearance in court this morning — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A couple weeks ago, iLoveToCreate designer Lauri Eaton came walking through the design studio and said, Check out the shirt I just made!
We immediately dropped our jaws and awed at her cool galaxy creation. She had been seeing a lot of cool galaxy art shirts and shoes online and was inspired to add in some fun tie dye scrunch and spray effects! Today we share this super cool galaxy technique with you to try at home — via iLoveToCreate Blog
A handmade recreation of a Cthulhu cultist’s storage chest inspired by HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Painstakingly created by Mythos artist Jason McKittrick, this collection is a veritable treasure trove of Cthulhu Cult related artefacts and documents contained in a handmade aged wooden chest — viadeviantART
Can you imagine… being a young fox, thinking you have seen it all. And then all of a sudden these white ‘things’ begin to fall from the sky… And since there’s no escaping, you’d better enjoy it 😉 — via 500px
Surprise! — via deviantART
Credulous geeks have poured over $130,000 into a fantastic food replacement named Soylent
, a substance whose creators aim to free your body
from the need to eat solids ever again.
The ludicrously ambitious and suspiciously under-skilled Soylent Corporation announced its crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday and within hours had apparently taken in over a hundred thousand dollars worth of pre-orders for its magical default meal
gunge.
Soylent’s inventor Rob Rhinehart claims in a promotional video for the nutrient goo that he’s been living off of Soylent for the past three months and has never been healthier
.
The company hopes that its green beige slop will help spark a food revolution that will see people eat non-gloopy food for pleasure rather than need — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.
The name of the provider is not yet known, United Press International said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee — and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges.
The search warrant did not specify that the IRS could take medical information, UPI said. And information technology officials warned the IRS about the potential to violate medical privacy laws before agents executed the warrant, the complaint said, as reported by UPI.
Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of the warrant, defendants threatened to ‘rip’ the servers containing the medical data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over,
the complaint states, UPI reported.
The suit also says IRS agents seized workers’ phones and telephone data — more violations of the warrant, UPI reported — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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The owners of a guesthouse who refused to let a lesbian couple share a bed are standing firm despite threats.
Karen and Michael Ruskin, of Pilgrim Planet Lodge, in central Whangarei, say they have received death threats and verbal abuse over their stance on homosexuality.
But they say they will not have their beliefs silenced, even if it puts their business at risk.
Lesbian couple Jane Collison, 30, and Paula Knight, 45, decided not to stay at the lodge on May 7 after being told they could only have a room with single beds.
They had booked online a room with a king-sized bed but Mrs Ruskin said that when the couple arrived they were told the lodge’s policy was for same-sex couples to be put into a room with two king-single beds.
The engaged couple decided not to stay but could not find other accommodation until they got to Waipu.
Mrs Ruskin said she was sorry for the couple’s inconvenience but was standing firm on her morals and the sanctity of her home — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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